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 Sachin Tendulkar  was born Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on 24th April, 1973 into a middle class family of Rajpur Saraswat Brahamins in Mumbai.Named after his family’s favorite musician, Sachin Dev Burman,Sachin has three siblings; older brother Ajit (who encouraged him to play cricket) and younger Nitin and sister Savitai. In 1995, Sachin married Anjali, the paediatrician daughter of Gujrati industria l ist Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara who was born on 12th October,1997 and Arjun who was born on 23rd September, 1999. Sachin was educated at Sharadashram Vidyamandir School, where he began his cricketing career under the influence of mentor and coach Ramakant Achrekar. In 1988, whilst still at school, Sachin was involved in a 600-run partnership with friend and team-mate Vinod Kambli in which his share was 320 runs.

Sachin made his first-class debut at the age of 15 years and 232 days scoring 100 not out for Mumbai, which makes him the youngest cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut. Sachin has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1989, making his debut in Karachi, against Pakistan, at the age of 16; he was bowled by Waqar Younis, who was also making his debut, for only 15 runs. He went on to score his maiden Test 50 a few days later at Faisalabad. His one-day career did not start off as smoothly as his Test career – he was dismissed for 0, again by Waqar Younis .it was the following year at Old Trafford whilst touring England that Sachin made his maiden Test century. The 1991-1992 season saw his first tour to Australia during which he enounced his first of many battles against Australia spinner Shane Warne, scoring a magnificent 148 now out in Sydney followed up by another 100 in Perth.

Sachin was probably at his peak from 1994-199. It was in Auckland, New Zealand in 1994 that he opened the batting for the first time, going on score 82 runs off 49 balls and in September that year he scored his maiden one-day international century against Australia in Sri Lanka. Surprisingly, it had taken him 79 one-day internationals to score his first century. Sachin’s rise to the top continued when he was the leading run scorer at the 1996 World Cup with 523 runs including two centuries and topping the batting averages. Following this he toured Australia. Scoring three centuries which were characterised by a premeditated plan to charge down the pitch to Warne. It was in 1999 when Pakistan toured India that Sachin got a chronic back problem causing India to lose the vital match at Cheapauk. Worse followed during the 1999 World Cup when his father died, forcing Sachin to fly back home to attend to family matters and miss the match against Zimbabwe. He retumed in the time for the match against Kenya at Bristol, England, when he scored 140 off 101 balls and dedicated it to his father.

It was Sachin’s great cricketing mind that saw him appointed of India in 1996-1997 on the tour to Pakistan. This made him the second youngest captain in the history of Indian cricket (the youngest being M.A.K. Pataudi who was appointed captain in the age of 21st). Sachin swiftly justified the faith put in him by leading India to series victories against South Africa and Australia, and in between those Test series victories claiming the Titan Cup, a triangular tournament featuring India, Australia and South Africa. But after this the performance declined. He was not given the squad he wanted and India started losing under an unhappy captain. Sachin was made the scapegoat, being dropped as captain in 2000 and replaced by Sourav Ganguly despite scoring more than 1,000 runs in all forms of the game in a calendar year. India then reached the 2003 world Cup final, thanks in large part to Sachin scoring 673 runs only 11 matches. Although India went on to lose the match, Sachin won the Man of the Series award. The drawn series of 2003-04 against Australia saw Sachin score century in Sydney, but in it was during this match that tennis elbow took its toll, causing him to miss the next two Tests against Australia.

Wisden (the world-famous cricketing magazine and yearbook) named Sachin one of the cricketers of the year in 1997 for scoring 1,000 test run in a calendar year on a record six occasions: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2003 a record. In 1998 Sachin scored 1,894 runs in one-day matches which was a record for any batsman in a calendar year. Even though he is no longer captain, Sachin remains an important part of the “think tank’ and is often seen discussing strategies with the captain and other senior players. For example, Rahul Dravid publicly acknowledged that it was Sachin who suggested the successful move of promoting Irfan Pathan up the order number 3. In 2005 against Sri Lanka Sachin broke the record for scoring the most number of centuries, taking his tally to 35. But later in 2005 and early part of 2006 he suffered from a shoulder injury which required an operation, causing him to miss the West Indies tour. However he agreed to play five games for the Lashings World Xl in order to get fit. Sachin’s first Twenty20 Match was against Pakistan during which he hit 50 off only 21st balls. On the scored day of the Nottingham Test against England in 2007 Sachin became only the third player ever to score more than 11,000 Test runs.